S Durga Gets A Thumbs Up From The CBFC Revising Committee!

Director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan is happy that his controversial Malayalam film S Durga has been passed by the CBFC Revising Committee. He is looking for a pan-India release in March or April.

“Happy to share this. Revising Committee of CBFC has cleared the censor certificate for S Durga. Hope that the film will be released in India soon,” Sasidharan tweeted on Wednesday along with the film’s poster that reads S Coming, S Durga.

S Durga was dropped from a jury-suggested shortlist of the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India along with another film Nude, triggering controversy last year.

The director got caught in a long-drawn battle with the IFFI organisers to screen his movie and even moved the Kerala High Court in November.

“They (CBFC) wanted to re-examine my film. I was told that there was manipulation in the title of the film. I went to the court. The court asked CBFC to clear the film if I was ready to release the film as S Durga instead of Sexy Durga,” Sasidharan told IANS.

“I was okay with S Durga as earlier, when I had applied to censor board, I was told to change the name. I had agreed to it. Now, after re-examination, they have found nothing objectionable. They cleared the film without any fresh cuts.